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New York Times, Monday, March 7, 2011

Author:
Mike Torch
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
4-Down : Needle and thread holders
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Michael Torch

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KQVXZ} This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Torch. Monday freshness: 92%
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© 2011, The New York Times3/7/11 ( No. 22,399 )
Across
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Pondered : MUSED
6
Long-winded stories : SAGAS
11
Some E.R. cases : ODS
14
Playing marble : AGATE
15
Kind of board for a séance : OUIJA
16
Church bench : PEW
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With 61-Across, 1982 question from the Clash : SHOULDISTAY
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___ Bo (exercise system) : TAE
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Breads with pockets : PITAS
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Leaf (through) : RIFFLE
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With 54-Across, old advertising question from Clairol : DOESSHEOR
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Boy Scout group : TROOP
28
Finale : END
29
Huey ___ and the News : LEWIS
31
Slips up : ERRS
32
Turkish money : LIRAS
35
Start of Caesar's boast : ICAME
37
Soliloquy question from Hamlet : TOBEORNOTTOBE
42
Bit of parsley : SPRIG
43
Pull ___ one on (hoodwink) : AFAST
45
Facts and figures, for short : INFO
48
___ nous : ENTRE
51
Disco guy on "The Simpsons" : STU
52
Afrikaners : BOERS
54
See 23-Across : DOESNTSHE
57
Safe to consume : EDIBLE
59
Oksana ___, 1994 gold-medal skater : BAIUL
60
Lower-priced gas option: Abbr. : REG
61
See 17-Across : ORSHOULDIGO
66
Writer Fleming : IAN
67
Diner : EATER
68
Recluse : LONER
69
Capp and Gore : ALS
70
Back of a boat : STERN
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"You ___ kidding!" : ARENT
Down
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Postgrad degs. : MAS
2
"Ick!" : UGH
3
Heavenly gatekeeper, in Portugal : SAOPEDRO
4
Needle and thread holders : ETUIS
5
Shoulder muscles, briefly : DELTS
6
"Ah yes" : SOISEE
7
Vienna's land: Abbr. : AUS
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"Scram!" : GIT
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Barely open : AJAR
10
"Tell me!" : SAYIT
11
Select : OPTFOR
12
With 46-Down, question from a 2000s game show : DEALOR
13
Goes 4-0 in the Series, e.g. : SWEEPS
18
Roald who created Willy Wonka : DAHL
22
Without : FREEOF
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The First State: Abbr. : DEL
24
"Don't bet ___!" : ONIT
25
Because of : OWINGTO
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Puerto ___ : RICO
30
Was in session : SAT
33
Soak up : ABSORB
34
Labor Day's mo. : SEP
36
Big Apple mass transit inits. : MTA
38
Miner's load : ORE
39
Outside of a watermelon : RIND
40
Low instrumental part of a tune : BASSLINE
41
Book before Job: Abbr. : ESTH
44
Wed. preceder : TUE
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Portugal's peninsula : IBERIA
46
See 12-Down : NODEAL
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Fakes, as an injury : FEIGNS
49
Having new energy : REBORN
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Isaac's eldest : ESAU
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Tart fruits : SLOES
55
Nabisco wafer : NILLA
56
Henry VIII's house : TUDOR
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The "E" in Q.E.D. : ERAT
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Fr. holy woman : STE
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The other woman : HER
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___-X : GEN
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Table scrap : ORT

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